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  • Relationships to external CEOs determine the future of family businesses


    What significance does building relations between an external CEO and the owners of Swedish family businesses have? In a new dissertation from Jönköping International Business School, Matthias Waldkirch shows how mismatched relationships can have major consequences for family firms.“The owners often look primarily for formal qualifications when recruiting, but this often says little about how the new CEO performs within the family firm,” says Matthias Waldkirch.

  • Using classifications in practice to improve health and welfare - from a local to global level


    How can classifications be used in structured digital documentation within health and social care so that the information can be reused and compared at different levels? This is the subject of Ann-Helene Almborg's Associate Professorship lecture on the 11th October.